Giardia duodenalis captured the attention of Leeuwenhoek in 1681 while he was examining
his own diarrheal stool, but, ironically, it did not really gain attention as a human pathogen …

This review presents the main cell characteristics altered after in vitro incubation of the
parasite with commercial drugs used to treat the disease caused by Giardia intestinalis. This …

Extracellular vesicles (EVs)(exossomes, microvesicles and apoptotic bodies) have been
well acknowledged as mediators of intercellular communications in prokaryotes and …

Giardia intestinalis is a non-invasive, protozoan parasite infecting the upper small intestine
of most mammals. Symptomatic infections cause the diarrhoeal disease giardiasis in …

Cyst formation in the parasitic protist Giardia duodenalis is critical to its transmission.
Existing proteomic data quantifies only 17% of coding genes transcribed during encystation …

Giardia lamblia, a protozoan parasite, infects a wide variety of vertebrates, including
humans. Studies indicate that this anaerobic protist possesses a limited ability to synthesize …

Although encystation (or cyst formation) is an important step of the life cycle of Giardia, the
cellular events that trigger encystation are poorly understood. Because membrane …

Giardia intestinalis has unique characteristics, even in the absence of certain organelles. For
instance, Golgi and mitochondria are not found. On the other hand, there is a network of …

Giardiasis is a worldwide parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Giardia lamblia in
humans and other animals, especially live stocks. Here, we briefly review the current state of …

Background The fungal cell wall is a complex and dynamic outer structure. In pathogenic
fungi its components interact with the host, determining the infection fate. The present work …